SLEEPING BEAUTY

There is a real life Sleeping Beauty in England who snoozes for two weeks at a time!

She is known to her family and friends as ‘Sleeping Beauty’ – but her life is no fairytale. Louisa Ball, 15, sleeps for two weeks at a time because she suffers from an incredibly rare disorder. She misses school exams, dance lessons and even missed an entire week’s holiday away with the family as she slept the whole way through.

Louisa, who lives in Worthing, has been diagnosed with Kleine-Levin Syndrome – also known as Sleeping Beauty Disease – where sufferers can fall into deep sleeps that can last for weeks.She first developed the disorder in October 2008 after recovering from a bout of flu.